alt Hacker News>an Acer 486 with 40MB drive and 32MB RAM.
32MB ram <-- no way. 4 and 8MB were the standard (8MB being grand), you could find 16MB on some Pentiums. So 40MB drive and 32MB RAM is an exceptionally unlikely combo.
32MB become norm around Pentium MMX and K6(-2).
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netule • yesterday at 4:39 PM
We had a 386 DX with 32MB of RAM. I don’t think it was that uncommon. DOOM still didn’t run super smoothly, though.
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cogman10 • yesterday at 5:17 PM
Yeah, IIRC my first computer, or at least the first one I really maintained, was a Pentium 2 with 32MB of ram and a 2gb hard drive. Good ole gateway pcs.
The first first computer I had was an old IBM PC.
Kye • yesterday at 3:27 PM
It could have been bought old and upgraded. Not everyone had the luxury of a brand new first computer.
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Haha, I wondered if someone would complain about 32MB. We had the board maxed out. My grandfather’s computer before ours.
A few months after taking possession, I upgraded the disk to a luxurious 400MB.